An internal combustion engine is one that operates through a thermodynamic cycle of internal combustion called Otto: when a spark generated by the fuel expands a gas that pushes the piston, which, ...

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FREDERIC KASTNER, who is known to the scientific world as the inventor of the Pyrophone, has recently died, as we announced at the time, at the early age of thirty years. He was the son of an Alsacian ...

A mighty Bach organ Toccata – with actual flames. Con fuoco! Someone has built an organ that shoots out actual flames – and this guy has played some Bach on it. This incredible instrument was found at ...